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Pressure techniques are pain compliance methods that use focused body weight, bony prominences (knees, elbows, forearms, chin), or grinding pressure to create intense localized pain on sensitive areas...

The standing ear pull is a pain compliance technique applied during upright confrontations by gripping and pulling or twisting the opponent's ear to control their head position and movement. [1,2] The...

Nerve locks are submission techniques that apply focused pressure directly to nerve bundles or pressure points, causing acute pain without necessarily threatening joint, vascular, or respiratory integ...

The ear pull from the clinch is a pain compliance technique where the attacker grips the opponent's ear and pulls or twists it while maintaining a standing clinch position. [1,2] The intense pain from...

Pain compliance holds are submission techniques that generate sustained pain through pressure, pinching, or grinding — without directly threatening a joint, blood supply, or airway. [5] The goal is to...

The ear pull from guard is a pain compliance technique where the attacker, while playing guard, grips the opponent's ear and pulls or twists to create pain and disrupt posture. [1,2] From closed or op...

The north-south choke is applied from the north-south position by wrapping one arm around the opponent's neck, dropping the shoulder downward in a 'paper cutter' motion against the wrist, and using bo...

The Lemon Squeeze Pass compresses the opponent's half guard by squeezing the legs together like squeezing a lemon, forcing the guard open through pressure rather than technique. [1]

The arm drag from clinch tie-ups is a wrist flexion technique applied during the standing clinch by gripping the opponent's wrist and bending it into flexion while simultaneously dragging the arm acro...

The north-south choke is a strangulation applied from the north-south position (kami-shiho-gatame orientation), where the attacker lies chest-to-chest on top of the opponent but facing the opposite di...

Standard Pancake is the conventional execution in which the wrestler secures a headlock or front headlock, drives forward and downward with their chest pressure and arm control, and flattens the oppon...

Royler's Armbar is a fast armbar transition from side control, named after Royler Gracie's signature execution. [1] The technique emphasises speed and pressure over positional establishment. [1]

The Duck Under Takedown family covers takedowns where the attacker ducks underneath the opponent's arm to achieve a behind or side position, then completes a takedown from the advantageous angle. [1] ...

The Wall Walk Standup subfamily covers standing techniques that use a wall or cage fence as support to rise from a downed position, using the vertical surface for balance and leverage. [1] The wall wa...

The thrust lapel choke drives the fist, knuckles, or forearm into the opponent's throat using the collar as a grip anchor. [1,2] The attacker grips the collar with one or both hands and thrusts forwar...

The Pressure Pass family covers guard passing techniques that use heavy bodyweight, chest-to-chest compression, and methodical forward drive to flatten the guard player, immobilise their hips, and slo...

The Hip Pressure Defence subfamily covers leg lock defence techniques where the defender drives their hips toward the opponent, reducing the space needed for the submission's rotational or extension m...

The Standard Blast Double executes the fundamental explosive double leg where the attacker fires a deep penetration step, drives the shoulder into the opponent's midsection, wraps both arms around the...

The leg weave pass threads one arm between the opponent's legs — behind the top knee-shield leg and in front of the bottom hook — binding both legs together, then drives the forehead into the opponent...

Ear pulls use gripping or pulling force on the opponent's ear to generate sharp pain and force positional changes. [1,2] While not a structural submission (no joint or vascular compromise), ear pulls ...

The Kung Fu Strike family within the Open Hand Strike group covers open-handed striking techniques from Chinese martial arts systems — the most diverse collection of open-hand formations and striking ...

The Whizzer Defence family covers defensive techniques that use the overhook with hip pressure (whizzer) to counter takedown attempts, particularly single-leg takedowns and underhook drives. [1] The w...

Stack Attack Defence is a rubber guard technique for countering the opponent's stacking pressure by adjusting hip angle and maintaining leg control. [1]

Necktie-lever chokes use a necktie grip (arm draped over the back of the opponent's neck) combined with a leg or body lever to apply choking pressure. [1] The Peruvian necktie is the primary technique...

Gator-roll wraps combine a front headlock choke grip with a rolling motion (the 'gator roll') to take the opponent to the ground while maintaining choking pressure. [1] The anaconda choke is the defin...

The Stacking Defence subfamily covers armlock defence techniques where the defender drives their weight forward and upward, compressing the attacker beneath them to relieve the extension pressure on t...

The Over-Under Pass is the signature pressure pass where the passer secures one arm OVER the opponent's far leg and one arm UNDER the near leg, clasps the hands, and drives heavy chest pressure to fla...

The Crossface Defence family covers takedown defence techniques where the defender drives a forearm across the attacker's face during a takedown attempt, using the crossface to turn the attacker's hea...

The Forearm Wedge variation of the Front Headlock Wrist Choke uses the attacker's forearm as an additional wedge behind the opponent's wrist, amplifying the choking pressure by driving the wrist deepe...

The Desperation Escape is a high-energy, explosive escape used when standard technical escapes have failed and the fighter is in immediate danger of being finished — a last-resort survival technique t...

The Standard Wall Walk subfamily describes the fundamental wall walking technique where the attacker uses alternating underhook pummel, hip positioning, and cage pressure to climb from a lower or neut...

Shin-over-neck chokes use the shin or calf placed across the opponent's throat from guard positions to create choking pressure using leg strength. [1,2] The gogoplata is the most famous technique: fro...

The chin-down wrist lock from prone control is applied when the attacker has the opponent pinned face-down and traps one wrist, bending it into flexion while pressing it toward the opponent's own face...

The wrist choke from front headlock is a species of the wrist-control-assisted front choke family where the attacker uses the bony edge of their own wrist as the primary choking surface against the op...

The Compression Lock Defence family covers defensive techniques against compression locks (also called muscle crushes or slicers), where the attacker applies pressure across a muscle belly using a bon...

The Posture Defence subfamily covers choke defensive techniques that use body positioning and postural alignment to prevent the opponent from applying choking pressure. [1] Posture defence addresses t...

Nukite Jodan is a spear hand thrust targeting the upper level — primarily the throat, eyes, or soft tissue of the face — using extended fingertips held together. [1] This is the most dangerous applica...

The omoplata is a shoulder lock applied from guard using the legs to isolate and torque the opponent's arm, forcing internal rotation of the glenohumeral joint beyond its normal range. The attacker sw...

The Godfather Sweep is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu technique executed from The Stomp Position — a specific guard configuration entered when the opponent achieves double underhooks from inside the practiti...

The can opener from closed guard top is applied by the top player who clasps both hands behind the opponent's head and drives the head forward toward the chest, flexing the cervical spine under intens...

The Shrimp Recovery subfamily covers defensive techniques that use the shrimp (hip escape) movement to create space and recover guard position when under pressure or when the guard has been partially ...

The Wall Takedown family encompasses all takedowns executed against the cage wall or a wall surface, where the vertical barrier provides an additional structural element that fundamentally alters take...

The Loco Plata is a variant of the Go-Go Plata (Gogoplata) that attacks the opponent's throat with the shin from a modified angle, using a lateral or diagonal shin placement rather than the standard d...

The can opener is a cervical flexion crank applied from inside the opponent's closed guard by clasping both hands behind the opponent's head and forcefully driving the chin toward the chest. [1,2,3] T...

The figure-four wrist lock from prone control is applied by trapping the face-down opponent's wrist and locking a figure-four grip configuration to apply concentrated flexion force. [1,2] The prone po...

The Pancake is a wrestling throw variation from the headlock position in which the attacker, rather than executing a full hip throw, drives the opponent directly to the mat in a flattening motion, pre...

The fulcrum headlock choke from front headlock uses the attacker's own body structure — typically the hip bone or forearm — as a rigid fulcrum point against which the opponent's neck is bent and compr...

The Von Flue Counter is a guillotine escape that converts the defender's position into a counter-submission by passing to side control while the attacker maintains the guillotine grip, then applying s...

Xande's Flattening Pass is a half guard passing technique developed by Xande Ribeiro that focuses on flattening the opponent before extracting the trapped leg. [1] The emphasis is on crushing pressure...

Ashi-gatame from standing is a standing armbar where the attacker traps the opponent's extended arm and uses the foot or shin placed against the opponent's body as a fulcrum point, then hyperextends t...